Washing Wool

When we left off the other day, Blossom was skirted and waiting to hit the wash.

For this I move around to the Wool House porch, dump the fleece out...

...divide it into two portions if it's a big fleece...

...and give it a good shake to remove as much VM (vegetable matter) and any remaining second cuts...

In case you are interested in the actual washing steps, I'm going to send you back to a previous post that covers it pretty well.  There is also a label on the right side of the blog that will take to you any posts that refer to washing...if I've remembered to add the label "washing wool".  We'll wait ;-).

Once Blossom was washed, she returned to the porch where I fluffed out her clean, bright white wool on the drying rack.  Actually, I think this is just half if I remember correctly.  Depending on the humidity and breeze, it takes between 8 and 24 hours to fully dry.

I've posted plenty of pictures and videos from previous trips to the mill, so I'll skip that and move on to spinning some yarn.  In a couple of weeks.  Sigh.